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In the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were many wars that shocked the whole country, including a blockade battle launched in response to the Battle of Xinkou, which made the people of the country shocked and fierce, and made the Japanese cowardly and courageous.
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The 196th Brigade of the Jin Sui Army, which participated in this battle,
All the soldiers marched forward courageously, and none of them were greedy for life and feared death
。 Under the situation of the disparity between the enemy and the enemy and the widow, under the command of brigade commander Jiang Yuzhen,
Without compromise, he completed the mission of blocking the Japanese army of 70,000 horses and delaying for 10 days, which won valuable time for the troops participating in the Battle of Xinkou.
After this battle, the 196th Brigade of 5,000 men was only about 600 people left, and the brigade commander Jiang Yuzhen was also shot and killed in the process of breaking through, when they had completed the task of holding on to the original ping for ten days.
After 10 days and nights of bitter fighting, the remnants of the 196th Brigade had been exhausted to the limit of combat effectiveness, at this time Jiang Yuzhen made a breakthrough plan for the troops, and the troops were expected to withdraw from the original Pingcheng City smoothly.
Unexpectedly, a Japanese soldier captured a soldier of the 196th Brigade, and under cruel interrogation, leaked the breakthrough plan of the troops to the Japanese army. The Japanese army had already laid heavy troops at the mouth of the cave where Jiang Yuzhen had broken through, and the soldiers who broke through under the fire of the devils had died nine times.
Because the brigade commander Jiang Yuzhen was at the end of the breakthrough team, as soon as he left the city, he attracted the attention of the Japanese army, and unfortunately was shot and killed.
In September 1937, Jiang Yuzhen's troops received orders from Yan Xishan to have the 196th Brigade, which had only 5,000 men, block 70,000 Japanese troops in Yuanping, and at that time, this large Japanese army of 70,000 people wanted to pass through Yuanpingchi to aid the Xinkou Battlefield and engage in a bloody battle with the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army. At the beginning, the 196th Brigade was tasked with holding Yuanping for 7 days.
Dragging in the Japanese reinforcements, buying time for the troops involved in the battle, the 70,000-strong Japanese army at that time included the infamous Itagaki Division.
The 196th Brigade was not only at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, but even its equipment and combat effectiveness could not match its opponents. The order to stick to Yuanping was actually a life-sucking charm, Jiang Yuzhen of course knew what this battle meant, the destruction of the country and the family was at hand, and the time had come for the brave man to lay down his life.
Jiang Yuzhen joined the army at the age of 18, participated in the Northern Expedition, and was later incorporated into the Jin Sui Army and promoted to brigade commander of the 196th Brigade. Coming from a military academy, he has a unique view of platooning
By the time the Japanese reached the foot of Harahei Castle on October 1, the 196th Brigade was ready for battle. But the Japanese carried a large amount of elite equipment, not only a large number of artillery and heavy machine guns, but also air force support.
With the overwhelming superiority in numbers and equipment, the Itagaki Division naturally did not take the 5,000 men of the 196th Brigade seriously. As soon as the Japanese army arrived, it surrounded Yuan Ping and planned to annihilate 5,000 people of Jiang Yuzhen's 196 Brigade, but the enemy underestimated the combat effectiveness of the 196 Brigade. After some aerial reconnaissance, the Japanese did not detect the situation of the defenders in the city, and thought that the 196th Brigade had fled without a fight. In fact, it is not surprising that the Japanese army has such an idea, especially the Japanese and Kosovarian forces like the Itagaki Division, which have encountered many precedents, and the 100,000 Northeast Army did not give up the three eastern provinces to the Japanese army at 9.18.
However, just as the Japanese army entered the city of Yuanping in a big way, it was suddenly attacked head-on by Jiang Yuzhen's troops, and the fierce fire caught the Japanese army by surprise.
Subsequently, Japanese aircraft launched a wild bombardment of the former Pingcheng defenders, and the 196th Brigade suffered heavy damage, and the Japanese aircraft bombing was targeted, specifically bombing the bunkers and bunkers of the 196th Brigade. At the same time, the Japanese army also deployed heavy fire at the city gate and launched a fierce fire exchange with Jiang Yuzhen's troops.
The soldiers of the 196th Brigade resisted, with machine guns and cannons aimed at the attacking Japanese and firing fiercely, and defenders' grenades at the city gates raining down on the Heads of the Japanese.
In order to boost the morale of the troops, Jiang Yuzhen also set up a reward method, and those who killed Japanese officers could be promoted to higher ranks and rich.
The soldiers were bent on destroying the enemy at that time, and hearing Jiang Yuzhen's order made the soldiers' hearts hot and they fought harder for the Japanese army.
Seeing that the attack was blocked, the Japanese sent out tanks, and as a result, the brave soldiers of the 196th Brigade were not frightened by the tanks and blew up the Japanese tanks with grenades one after another.
Although the momentum of the Japanese offensive was destroyed, the 196th Brigade also suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese suffered heavy losses on the first day, and became much more cautious when they attacked the city on the second day, not only increasing the strength of the troops, but also the pace of the attack was more stable. From ground attack to air bombing.
By the time the battle reached the 7th day, the 196th Brigade had been reduced by more than half, the Japanese army killed the red eye, sent a death squad into the city to attack, the 196 Brigade also organized a death squad, the two sides of the death squad in the city to fight street battles, and finally both sides of the death squads were killed.
After fighting for 7 days, the 196th Brigade thought it could withdraw from the battle, but Yan Xishan added an additional order to Jiang Yuzhen to hold out for another 3 days. At this time, the 196th Brigade was already at the end of the crossbow, but Jiang Yuzhen could only obey the order, he replied to Yan Xishan, and would rather die in Yuanping than complete the mission.
However, the Japanese offensive was even more frantic, and in the face of machine gun fire from the 196th Brigade, the Japanese army stepped on the corpses of the soldiers and attacked the city, advancing to the positions of the 196th Brigade under the cover of tanks.
By the night of the tenth day, Jiang Yuzhen's troops had been driven to the dead end, and after successfully dragging the Japanese army for three days, Jiang Yuzhen began to drill holes under the command to break through.
However, before the troops could withdraw, the plan for the breakout was leaked, resulting in Jiang Yuzhen and many soldiers being killed during the breakout, General Jiang Yuzhen was brutally beheaded by the Japanese army after his death, and only more than 600 people of the 196th Brigade escaped from Yuanping.